单词 | mainline |
释义 | mainline (meɪnlaɪn ) Word forms: mainlines, mainlining, mainlined 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A mainline railway is a major railway between two important places. ...the first mainline railway to be built in Britain for almost a hundred years. ...London's mainline stations. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can use mainline to describe people, ideas, and activities that belong to the most central, conventional, and normal part of a tradition, institution, or business. We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists. 3. verb [usually cont] If people mainline a drug or if they mainline, they inject an illegal drug into themselves. [informal] We see him snorting and mainlining cocaine. [VERB noun] |
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